The Dead Zone
157.85.86.90:28015 checked 10m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 28% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 29 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 12:20 UTC10d ago | 3 | – | running | 0 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
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Quick answers
Server rules
What is the setup on The Dead Zone when it comes to rules and settings?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The Dead Zone. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. survival is its mode, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Its own label is vanilla: it runs the unmodified game: rates, kits and rules are all standard. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Which map is active on The Dead Zone?
Size 5,400, seed 567367, generated by the game: the procedural map on The Dead Zone. From this page, RustMaps can show it: size and seed produce the same map each time.
Server population
What is the population like on The Dead Zone?
Right now, 0 players are on The Dead Zone, which has 125 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 21:00 UTC, when it averaged 1 players.
What is The Dead Zone's ranking?
In the top 28% of ranked servers, The Dead Zone holds #6,347 for player hours over the last seven days.
Lists and tags
What do The Dead Zone's tags indicate?
For the game's server browser, The Dead Zone publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp125 (Max players): The server has 125 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the standard team limit of 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the unmodified game: rates, kits and rules are all standard. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Which Rust Zerg Life filters and lists cover The Dead Zone?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include The Dead Zone are Rust community servers for clans and Vanilla servers for clans and zergs. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
About the server
What is the uptime and reliability of The Dead Zone?
You can join The Dead Zone now: it is online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 3 days 11 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 86%: 144 hours up out of 168. Its first appearance in Rust Zerg Life records is 3 October 2026.
Is The Dead Zone smooth to play on?
Server fps held an average of 92 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 70. It reached a maximum of 162,209 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 6,028 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
Which Rust build does The Dead Zone use?
The server The Dead Zone runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 with Linux as its operating system. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, which Steam updates automatically.
What location does The Dead Zone use?
No region is published by The Dead Zone. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. You can reach it at 157.85.86.90:28015.
Wipe schedule
What can you expect on wipe day on The Dead Zone?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 29 hours in.
When does The Dead Zone wipe?
The record of The Dead Zone's wipes is too thin to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it is due next. The world it is running now dates from 10 days 8 hours ago.
How to join
What is the process to join The Dead Zone?
Join by entering client.connect 157.85.86.90:28015 in the console (press F1 first). Or use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp125,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp125
ts8
v2634
cs167398
ptrak
$r?
Difficulty
^v
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.